Today, Monday, the Israeli occupation forces escalated their aggression on the city of Tulkarm and its camp, which has continued for the 22nd consecutive day, and the ninth day on the Nour Shams camp, amid additional destruction of streets and infrastructure and the demolition and burning of homes.

According to local sources, the occupation forces sent military reinforcements of heavy machinery and bulldozers to the city and its two camps, and began extensively bulldozing the streets and vandalizing property.

In the eastern neighborhood of Tulkarm city, especially in the area of Al-Muqata'a Street up to the Abu Safiya intersection and the municipal slaughterhouse, the occupation forces bulldozed the streets in those areas, causing great damage to the infrastructure, trees and vehicles, and closed some entrances with earthen barriers.

In a later development, the occupation forces tightened their siege on the eastern neighborhood this evening, preventing its residents from leaving their homes, forcing shop owners to close their stores, pursuing citizens, arresting a number of them, checking their identities, interrogating them in the field, and abusing them.

In Tulkarm camp, the occupation forces continued to bulldoze streets and homes, causing extensive damage, in addition to burning homes in the Al-Samran neighborhood, including the home of the martyr Wassim Anbar, while sounds of gunfire and explosions were heard.

The situation in Tulkarm camp is becoming more difficult, amid a state of fear and panic that has afflicted the residents who remained in their homes on the outskirts, especially in the airport neighborhood, in addition to a severe shortage of basic and necessary supplies such as food, water, medicine and milk.

Eyewitnesses added that the occupation forces pursue anyone who leaves his home or tries to return to the camp, shoot at him, and direct drones towards him to film him.

They stressed that nothing inside the camp remained the same, as the occupation forces deliberately destroyed the contents of the houses and threw everything inside them outside, including electrical appliances, furniture and clothes, with systematic sabotage and destruction of all aspects of life in the camp.

In the same context, the occupation forces continued their stifling siege of Nour Shams camp, which included additional destruction of the infrastructure completely, extensive raids on homes and the destruction of their contents, the demolition and bulldozing of other homes in the neighborhoods of Al-Manshiya, Al-Jami’, Al-Joura, Al-Shuhada, and Al-Madaris, and the closing of the entrances to homes and shops with barriers and rubble.

These attacks coincided with the occupation forces firing live ammunition, occasional bombings, and low-altitude reconnaissance flights.

The occupation forces set up a checkpoint on the Nablus road connecting the Tulkarm and Nour Shams camps, stopped vehicles, checked the identities of their passengers, interrogated them, and detained a number of them. They also raided and searched homes in the area, and seized two homes and turned them into military barracks.

Today, relief efforts continued from the relevant authorities in Tulkarm, who worked to deliver food, medicine and water to a number of families besieged inside Nour Shams camp, in light of the difficult circumstances they are experiencing due to the occupation’s aggression.

The Red Crescent crews also evacuated a number of elderly and sick people from the camp and took them to shelters in the governorate.